If you thought arrival, immigration, and exit at Changi Airport was fast - Voting in Singapore is even faster! In and out of the polling station in record 5 mins this morning.
#HappyElectionDay
A better way of expressing why LLMs arent generating new knowledge : "They're (LLMs) mostly doing "manifold filling" at the moment - filling in the interpolation gaps between what humans already know, somehow treating knowledge as an intangible fabric of reality."
thomwolf.io/blog/scienti...
This is true if only assuming that the "un-symbolized" or unrepresented excess is in-between our existing symbols or words.
Makes one wonder how we decided to build an AGI using language as the philosophers (Derrida, Lacan) of our past have been saying that language is insufficient to represent reality.
A Jacques Lacan-esque research orientation with the idea that language is not enough. Words are insufficient for communication and our thoughts are always guided by an excess - something that cannot be put into words.
An alternate history (fiction) I will be interested in reading is one where chatgpt didn't happen. An inflection point in our AI research lives where every discourse does not surround language or language-based models or agents.
Stoked to report that our paper "MorphFader: Enabling Fine-grained Controllable Morphing with Text-to-Audio Models" has been accepted at ICASSP 2025! My final paper from my PhD thesis at NUS!
arxiv.org/abs/2408.07260
See you all at ICASSP in Hyderabad, India in April 2025! #icassp2025
